Author Topic: Top five books you'd leave for humanity. (Read 9123 times)

NotSure · « **Reply #50 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:06:30 PM »

Quote from: tbombz on December 04, 2012, 06:04:48 PM

off the top of my head, not really sure.

some ideas =

betrand russel's history of western philosophy

aesops fables

how to win friends and influence people

donald trump= the art of the deal

rene descartes= meditations

one that i just started reading this week, well im on my second way through it now, is called "the untethered soul" and it has caused some significant changes in my life this week.

ROFL... Donald Trump? .................Woah... ........ WoW.............. Phew... now i feel better

Archer77 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:07:27 PM »

Quote from: da_vinci on December 04, 2012, 04:51:52 PM

I was about to write "something on a common sense and critical thinking" too lol.. Great minds think alike I guess.

I thought, "why didn't I put that on my list." I have your last pic Ending Aging but haven't gotten to it yet.

tbombz · « **Reply #52 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:08:11 PM »

Quote from: NotSure on December 04, 2012, 06:06:30 PM

ROFL... Donald Trump? .................Woah... ........ WoW.............. Phew... now i feel better

thats a damn good book!

Pet shop boys · « **Reply #53 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:10:58 PM »

Start with this one...

when youre done I'll come back with book number 4.

WOOOSSSHHHHHHHHHHH

syntaxmachine · « **Reply #54 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:29:56 PM »

A better question is what books one would leave for aliens to discover, assuming such aliens are intelligent and can engage in a bit of "radical interpretation":

On the Origin of Species by Some Dude
The latest edition of a quality mathematics textbook
The latest edition of a quality physics textbook
The latest edition of a quality linguistics textbook
The Language of Thought by Jerry Fodor

In other words, it would be a grab bag of our latest scientific understanding of the world to show that we weren't complete retards (since most of whatever else the aliens find will indicate as such). The first two will be a point of contact between the aliens and us, since presumably evolution via natural selection occurs on other planets, and because presumably mathematics is universal (though the aliens will probably use something other than base ten).

The Abdominal Snoman · « **Reply #55 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:42:07 PM »

1. PMMA killed my bodybuilding career by Jay Cutler
2. My feet won't stop growing by David Palumbo
3. The ARt of duckface by DBL
4. Painted face of shit by Lee Priest
5. Diabetes ain't nothing but a peanut by Ronnie Coleman

BIG ACH · « **Reply #56 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:45:29 PM »

Quote from: Raymondo on December 04, 2012, 02:31:36 PM

1) The Odyssey or Parallel Lives
2) King Lear or Hamlet
3) War and Peace or the Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment
4) 1984 or Animal Farm or Fahrenheit 451
5) The Old Man and the Sea or The Grapes or Wrath

Great one right there!

BIG ACH · « **Reply #57 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:46:52 PM »

Here's one I loved:

DANTE'S INFERNO

240 is Back · « **Reply #58 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:48:13 PM »

Quote from: tommywishbone on December 04, 2012, 03:31:16 PM

1) Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
2) Beef It
3) Anabolic Reference Guide
4) Underground Steroid Handbook
5) World Anabolic Review

x2

Lobstah · « **Reply #59 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:48:08 PM »

1) Ham on Rye - Bukowski
2) Brave New World - Huxley
3) Rant - Palahniuk
4) Cities of the Red Night - Burroughs
5) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 - Reynolds

Easy!

snx · « **Reply #60 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:46:16 PM »

A basic first year electrical engineering textbook
My fourth year biochemical processes textbook
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
The complete works of Niehls Bohr on the atomic model
The complete works of Alan Turing

FitnessFrenzy · « **Reply #61 on:** December 05, 2012, 12:29:04 AM »

dr.chimps · « **Reply #62 on:** December 05, 2012, 03:31:21 AM »

Quote from: BIG ACH on December 04, 2012, 09:46:52 PM

Here's one I loved:

DANTE'S INFERNO

Dante's Inferno is a hot sauce. I think you mean his Divine Comedy.

NordicNerd · « **Reply #63 on:** December 05, 2012, 03:43:32 AM »

Quote from: Wiggs on December 04, 2012, 02:21:47 PM

1. The Bible
2. The Art of War (lol)
3. The Art of Seduction
4. Tragedy and Hope (Caroll Quigley)
5. The Complete works of William Shakespeare

1. The God Delusion (Dawkins)
2. Disgrace (Coetze)
3. The Corrections (Franzen)
4. Principia Mathematica (Newton)
5. Peoples history of the world (Harman)

:-)

NN

erics · « **Reply #64 on:** December 05, 2012, 03:48:23 AM »

The Old Man and the Sea is the greatest book I have ever read.

Not really sure what the other 4 books would be though.

Does Flex Magazine count as a book?

GoneAway · « **Reply #65 on:** December 05, 2012, 03:50:58 AM »

Quote from: Kwon_2 on December 04, 2012, 02:28:20 PM

I read alot of books when younger.

Ditto... I used to read stuff like Goosebumps as a kid and stuff like that. As a late teen/adult I read the odd book on bodybuilding or an autobiography but not much else. Somehow I feel dumber because of my lack of reading, which IMO is probably a symptom of a bigger problem which is not being able to focus very well on some things.

MORTALCOIL · « **Reply #66 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:05:35 AM »

Dostoievsky- The Demons (often referenced as "The Possessed)

Gogol- Dead Souls

Shakespeare- The Tempest (if only for both Prospero's monologues); otherwise Macbeth

Gontcharov- Oblomov

Celine- D'un Chateau l'Autre

I leave the essays apart.

WOOO · « **Reply #67 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:08:16 AM »

not enough porno in this topic

dr.chimps · « **Reply #68 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:11:51 AM »

Quote from: MORTALCOIL on December 05, 2012, 04:05:35 AM

Dostoievsky- The Demons (often referenced as "The Possessed)

Gogol- Dead Souls

Shakespeare- The Tempest (if only for both Prospero's monologues); otherwise Macbeth

Gontacharov- Oblomov

Celine- D'un Chateau l'Autre

I leave the essays apart.

I read that years ago. A lazy aristocrat and his wise-cracking, thieving valet - hilarious. Not a lot of funny Russian books, but this is a good one.

MORTALCOIL · « **Reply #69 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:17:27 AM »

Quote from: dr.chimps on December 05, 2012, 04:11:51 AM

I read that years ago. A lazy aristocrat and his wise-cracking, thieving valet - hilarious. Not a lot of funny Russian books, but this is a good one.

It walks on that thin line between absurd and tragic, pretty much like in Gogol's work. And that zeitgeist of that era is beautifully transcribed I felt.

garebear · « **Reply #70 on:** December 05, 2012, 05:06:23 AM »

Quote from: Raymondo on December 04, 2012, 02:31:36 PM

1) The Odyssey or Parallel Lives
2) King Lear or Hamlet
3) War and Peace or the Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment
4) 1984 or Animal Farm or Fahrenheit 451
5) The Old Man and the Sea or The Grapes or Wrath

This

Obvious Gimmick · « **Reply #71 on:** December 05, 2012, 06:26:04 AM »

Leave for humanity? So this is a post apocolyse situation?
Ok
1 a brief history of the world
2. Some big book with photos of the great painting
3. Ana karanina
4 the great gatsby
5 autobiography of a yogi

MORTALCOIL · « **Reply #72 on:** December 05, 2012, 06:47:07 AM »

Quote from: airosol on December 05, 2012, 06:26:04 AM

Leave for humanity? So this is a post apocolyse situation?
Ok
1 a brief history of the world
2. Some big book with photos of the great painting
3. Ana karanina
4 the great gatsby
5 autobiography of a yogi

No cooking nor gardening books then?

El Diablo Blanco · « **Reply #73 on:** December 05, 2012, 07:36:10 AM »

El Diablo Blanco · « **Reply #74 on:** December 05, 2012, 07:37:04 AM »